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NGINXvsSimpleX Chat

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

NGINXSimpleX Chat
Score84/10074/100
Rank in category#2 of 12 in Web Servers#4 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars31 99919 613
Stars, last 30 days+278+143
Stable releases, 12 months2112
Latest releaserelease-1.31.8 · 21 Oct 2026v7.0.4 · 3 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseBSD-2-ClauseAGPL-3.0
Main languageCHaskell

Which one should you pick?

NGINX scores 84/100 against 74/100 for SimpleX Chat, so it is the safer default.

NGINX ships more often: 21 stable releases in the past year, against 12 for SimpleX Chat.

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